I went to see 'I'm not there' on friday night, a kind of unusually told film about the earlier life of Bob Dylan. It was really great! There were, I think 5 different personas, or versions of Dylan, and when the film went between the different stories, the film took on a completely different style, from black and white, dreamlike scenes favoured for the 'publicly unfavourable' dylan, to the high contrast pure white backdrop for the court dylan and western colours in the 'billy' dylan.
There were some really nice quirks to the film too, some unusual, wes anderson style shots of his wife cleaning dishes in the sink, with frames removed, and then a part where dylan sees himself floating above rooftops, but attatched like a kite by his ankle.
Cate blanchett was my favourite and most authentic dylan. Of course the film had a great soundtrack as well, for some reason i found the film (although great) to be really upsetting as well, god knows why.
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